Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Don't you love it when a project works out, especially when you weren't sure it would? That is the case with my project this week. I was hoping it would turn out alright...

Well lucky for me it did!

It seems that in our neighborhood you are not officially part of the hood until you have a cute little chair on your porch. Everyone has one; metal ones, woods ones you name it. So imagine my delight when I saw this little guy sitting on the side of the road waiting for the garbage man.

You may remember me posting about it during welding month . It was bent out of shape and rusted out on the bottom.

Well I gave bending back into shape myself another shot and I was actually successful this time! No help needed from the hubs!

Success!!! Unfortunately though while I was bending, pulling, and shaping, the rusted leg broke.

I was only upset for a moment because I realized this could be an opportunity to use my welder! I hadn't used it since my curtain rod project and was itching to pull it out again.

I started by using the grinding bit on my Dremel to get any old paint and rust off the area I was going to weld.

Now this is a part of the project that I wasn't sure would work or not since the leg was rusted pretty badly. Still I thought it was worth a shot.

Getting all set up!

And what do you know; it worked! I was able to weld the two pieces back together again!!!!

I decided to keep it red since it would go well with the paint on our house.

Making some progress! I applied 2 coats, hopefully this will help it from rusting out again.

wow. good job! i really want to get these retro chairs, but when i see them they are always in bad shape (like yours was). good for you for having the motivation & creativity to fix it up! i LOVE the red, it's perfect!!

wow! i thought i was hot stuff using the circular saw- but you use a welder! that's great, more power to ya, sister! i have to rely on hubby to do my welding, so i'm very impressed! and you made a cute addition to your home for just the cost of spray paint and saved it from a landfill in the process! you're awesome!

Hi! You are amazing! Your chair turned out awesome. I remember my grandparents having similar chairs on their front porch. But they weren't painted such a great red. They had been painted in that 1950's era turquoise. Thanks for visiting on my blog!

That looks terrific! Such a wonderful pop of color, and you did a great job on the welding, too! Thanks for linking up to Heart and Home and Wednesday Gratitude, hope you'll join in again soon!XOHeidi - Heart and Home

OK I really hope your project wins the CSI...because it is awesome! The fact that you just happened to have a welder that you never used is so cool...and yes it worked perfect. I am digging that red too. Nice job! And thanks for joining my party....Debbie

Just a lurker, but wanted to say my son has just redone a chair like this for a 4-H project. Painted it the exact same color. Ours was in a little better shape, just more rust to sand off. It looks great! We have another, and I'm hoping he'll do the same!

ohhh I love this! I love it with the pillow! I am impressed you own a welder let alone know how to use it! You go girl! My hubby would be put in the ground before he'd let me have such a "weapon" haha!

I am absolutely amazed at the transformation! You surely have the nicest porch chair in the "hood" now! I feel very lucky to be included on the list of 12 such incredible talented women in the DIY Club finals. With 11 new, amazing, inspiring blogs to follow...I'm already a winner! Best, Jenn

if you have rust under that red paint, it will keep on eating away at the chair. I learned that in historic archaeology class......but i never did learn to weld in that session of community college evening classes. Drat. It's gotta be a great talent to have hanging around til needed......LOL